Former Apple employee takes Apple to task for delay in sending out security patch for iOS

Kristin Paget, who once worked on the Apple iPhone security team in Cupertino, questioned Apple on her blog for a decision it made relating to recently discovered security issues on OS X and iOS. Usually, two separate products from the same company, with the same security issue, are fixed at the same time. Instead, Apple went ahead and fixed the OS X flaw first, waiting for this week's iOS 7.1.1 update to repair the problem on its mobile OS.



The same issue happened in reverse earlier this year, with the SSL flaw that affected both OS X and iOS. In that case, iOS was fixed first as iOS 7.0.6 ...



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